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Efficient Tear-A-Byte® Method Saves Money

All processes in a data center and within the enterprise have direct and indirect costs. Managers know what the direct costs are because they are budgeted and invoiced regularly. The indirect expenses spring up when a process is not completed correctly. Most business professionals know that it is rare for everything in a project to be executed without any issues. At TechR2, we encounter this issue with many clients – so we’ve become experts in solving problems and more importantly, solving problems while staying within budget.

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TechBox™ for Enterprise

The TechR2 TechBox™ is a lockable, efficient, and cost effective solution for your IT asset disposal needs. The flat rate cost includes shipping, processing of IT assets, a detailed audit report and Certificate of Destruction. We follow the ISO 14001 Environmental Health and Safety Systems. We honor a zero landfill policy and take pride in our role in honoring the environment.

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TechR2 RFID Tags Will Enable Full Verification of Any Disk Drive Destruction

The tracking of removable or portable media has become critical due to the large amount of sensitive, confidential, personal and identifiable information contained in any such media.

Loss and theft ranks high as the primary means by which sensitive data is inadvertently disclosed to sources of ill will. In the case of portable media, any kind of information release could occur while storage hardware is taken off-line and / or retired without proper erasure. In some cases, attempted conventional means to overwrite data on drives not conducted by credible and certified means can lead to improper overwrite of all sectors on the drive.

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Data Destruction Myths

An IT Manager was heard to say recently “the hard drive is inoperable so let’s just send it to offsite recycling”. Another data center manager chimes in and adds, they “beat their units up with hammers and send them to the recycler”. An R2 recycling manager smiled and said “the last time I was at the recycler’s facility, I saw many people picking through the piles of e-waste and selecting all of the units that were not destroyed and purchasing them for a miniscule amount of cash.

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Data breaches from lost or stolen media are the #1 source of large-scale data compromises.

Data breaches from lost or stolen media are the #1 source of large-scale data compromises.

  • The #1 cause of large-scale data breaches is loss of data-bearing media (disk, tape, USB drives, CD/DVD) during transport or from data centers.
  • Many organizations lack adequate controls to track, secure and destroy data-bearing devices.
  • Compliance with new Federal Standard for Data Destruction NIST 800-88 requires companies to review and upgrade their information security practices.
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